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Biography of Lorne Greene (excerpt)
Lorne Hyman Greene O.C., LL.D. (February 12, 1915 – September 11, 1987) was a Canadian actor, best known in the United States for his roles on two American television programs: the long-running western Bonanza and the shorter-lived cult classic science fiction program Battlestar Galactica.
Biography of Constant Rémy (excerpt)
Constant Rémy, born May 20, 1882 in Paris and died August 16, 1958 in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, was a French actor and comedian. Filmography (extract) * 1909 : Benvenuto Cellini de Camille de Morlhon * 1909 : Le Bon Voisin ![]()
Biography of James Hilton (excerpt)
James Hilton (September 9, 1900 – December 20, 1954) was an Oscar-winning English novelist, and author of several best-sellers including Lost Horizon (which popularised the mythical Shangri-La) and Goodbye Mr. Chips. Born in Leigh, in Lancashire, England on 9 September 1900, he was the son of John Hilton, the headmaster of Chapel End School in Walthamstow. ![]()
Biography of Philippe Soupault (excerpt)
Philippe Soupault (Chaville, 2 August 1897 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 12 March 1990) was a French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist. He took an active role in the Dadaist movement and later founded the Surrealist movement with André Breton. ![]()
Biography of Messali Hadj (excerpt)
Ahmed Ben Messali Hadj (Arabic: مصالي الحاج) (March 16, 1898 in Tlemcen, Algeria - 1974 in France) was an Algerian nationalist politician dedicated to the independence of his homeland from France. He co-founded the 'Étoile Nord-Africaine', the 'Parti du Peuple Algérien' and the 'Mouvement pour le Triomphe des Libertés Démocratiques' before dissociating himself from the armed struggle for Independence in 1954.
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Biography of Per-Jakez Helias (excerpt)
Pêr-Jakez Helias (nom de plume Pierre-Jakez Hélias) was a French author, poet, stage actor and radio worker of Breton expression. He was born in 1914 in Pouldreuzig, Penn-ar-Bed, Brittany and died on August 13, 1995. He also collected folk tales from his native land and wrote both in Breton and French. ![]()
Biography of Marcel Labey (excerpt)
Marcel Labey (6 August 1875, Vésinet - 25 November 1968, Nancy) was a French conductor and composer. Life He was born to a family of magistrates and studied law in Paris (gaining his doctorate in 1898) before turning to music. He learned piano under Elie-Myrima Delaborde and Louis Breitner, and harmony under René Lenormand. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Daladier (excerpt)
Édouard Daladier (18 June 1884 - 10 October 1970) was a French Radical-Socialist politician, and Prime Minister of France at the start of the Second World War. Career Daladier was born in Carpentras, Vaucluse (later, he would become known to many as "the bull of Vaucluse" because of his thick neck and large shoulders and determined look, although cynics also quipped that his horns were like those of a snail). ![]()
Biography of Germaine Poinso-Chapuis (excerpt)
Germaine Poinso-Chapuis, born March 6, 1901 in Marseille, died February 20, 1981 in Marseille, was a French politician.
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Biography of Eugène Ribère (excerpt)
Eugène Ribère, born June 14, 1902 in Thuir (Pyrénées-Orientales), died March 22, 1988, was a French Rugby union player. ![]()
Biography of Jackie Coogan (excerpt)
John Leslie (Jackie) Coogan (October 26, 1914 – March 1, 1984) was an American actor who began his movie career as a child actor in silent films. Hollywood Coogan was born in Los Angeles, Massachusetts, to John Henry Coogan, Jr., and Lilian Rita Dolliver Coogan.
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Biography of Pierre Marcilhacy (excerpt)
Pierre Marcilhacy (February 14, 1910 Paris 8e - July 6, 1987) was a French politician. He was a Senator for the Charente, sitting in the Democratic Left group. He ran against Charles de Gaulle in the French presidential election, 1965 for the European Liberal Party, a small centrist liberal group.
Biography of M. F. K. Fisher (excerpt)
Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (July 3, 1908 – June 22, 1992) was a prolific and well-respected writer, writing more than 20 books during her lifetime and also publishing two volumes of journals and correspondence shortly before her death in 1992. Her first book, Serve it Forth, was published in 1937.
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Biography of Albert Préjean (excerpt)
Albert Préjean (22 October 1894, Paris 20e (birth time and date source: Didier Geslain, Archives de Paris) – 1 November 1979, Paris) was a French actor, primarily in film. He served in World War I, and was decorated with the Croix de Guerre and the Legion d'honneur. ![]()
Biography of Akarova (excerpt)
Marguerite Acarin (born Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, 30 March 1904; died Ixelles, 24 June 1999) was a Belgian dancer, choreographer, and artist. Acarin is generally known by her stage-name, Akarova. She was called "the Belgian Isadora Duncan". She studied music and dance under Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, creator of eurhythmics, after which she joined the Antwerp ballet. ![]()
Biography of António Botto (excerpt)
António Botto (Concavada, Portugal, August 17, 1892 – Rio de Janeiro, March 16, 1959) was a Portuguese aesthete and modernist poet. Early life António Thomaz Botto was born at 8:00 a.m. to Maria Pires Agudo and Francisco Thomaz Botto, near Abrantes. His father earned his living as a boatman in the Tagus. ![]()
Biography of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (excerpt)
Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (December 22, 1876 – December 2, 1944) was an Italian ideologue, poet, editor, and founder of the Futurist movement. Childhood and adolescence Emilio Angelo Carlo Marinetti (some documents give his name as "Filippo Achille Emilio") spent the first years of his life in Alexandria, Egypt, where his father (Enrico M.
Biography of Jean Guitton (excerpt)
Jean Guitton (August 18, 1901 (birth time source: city hall of Saint-Etienne) - March 21, 1999) was a French Catholic philosopher and theologian. Born in Saint-Étienne, Loire, he studied at the Lycée du Parc in Lyon and was accepted at the École normale supérieure in Paris.
Biography of Adolf Portmann (excerpt)
Adolf Portmann (27 May 1897 (source not archived) – 28 June 1982) was a zoologist. Born in Basel, Switzerland, he studied zoology at the University of Basel and worked later in Geneva, Munich, Paris and Berlin, but mainly in marine biology laboratories in France (Banyuls-sur-Mer, Roscoff, Villefranche-sur-Mer) and Helgoland. ![]()
Biography of René Vietto (excerpt)
René Vietto (17 February 1914, Le Cannet, Alpes-Maritimes – 14 October 1988, Orange, Vaucluse) was a French road racing cyclist. In the 1934 Tour de France, Vietto, a relative unknown, got wings on the mountains. This was not a surprise, because he had won the Grand Prix Wolber. ![]()
Biography of Vicente Aleixandre (excerpt)
Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo (April 26, 1898 – December 13, 1984) was a Spanish poet who was born in Seville. Aleixandre was a Nobel Prize laureate for Literature in 1977. He was part of the Generation of '27.
Biography of Pierre Grimal (excerpt)
Pierre Grimal (November 21 1912, Paris - October 11 1996, Paris) was a French historian, classicist and Latinist. Fascinated by the Roman civilization, he did much to promote the cultural inheritance of ancient Rome, both among specialists and the general public.
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Biography of Dino Risi (excerpt)
Dino Risi (December 23, 1916 – June 7, 2008) was an Italian film director. With Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy and Ettore Scola, he was one of the masters of Commedia all'italiana. He was born in Milan. Risi became a respected director following the success of the film Pane, amore e.
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Biography of Francisco da Costa Gomes (excerpt)
Francisco da Costa Gomes, GOA (Chaves, Portugal, 30 June 1914 – 31 July 2001), was a Portuguese military officer and politician, the 15th President of the Portuguese Republic (the second after the Carnation Revolution). Life On 8 December 1952, Gomes married Maria Estela Veloso de Antas Varajão (born 23 March 1927 in Viana do Castelo), daughter of João de Campos Varajão and his wife Angélica Martins Veloso (b. ![]()
Biography of Christian Wirth (excerpt)
Christian Wirth (24 November 1885 - 26 May 1944) was a senior SS officer during the program to exterminate the Jewish people of occupied Poland during the Second World War, known as Operation Reinhard. He was a top aide of Odilo Globocnik, the overall director of Operation Reinhard, and his responsibility was scaling up the T-4 Euthanasia Program, in which disabled people had been murdered by gassing or lethal injection, by developing extermination camps for mass murder.
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Biography of Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona (excerpt)
The Infante Don Juan of Spain, Count of Barcelona (Juan Carlos Teresa Silvestre Alfonso de Borbón y Battenberg) (La Granja, Segovia, June 20, 1913 – Pamplona, April 1, 1993), was the fourth son and designated heir of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, the monarch replaced by the Second Spanish Republic, and father of King Juan Carlos, under whom a constitutional monarchy was restored. ![]()
Biography of Simone Renant (excerpt)
Simone Renant, born March 19, 1911 in Amiens, died March 29, 2004 in Garches, Hauts-de-Seine, was a French comedian and actress. She was the wife of French Director Christian-Jaque, and then producer Alexandre Mnouchkine. Filmography (extract) 1937 : Les Pirates du rail : Marie Pearson
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Biography of Edmond Jaloux (excerpt)
Edmond Jaloux (born in Marseille on June 19, 1878; died in Lutry on August 22, 1949) was a French novelist, essayist, and critic. His works tended to be set in Paris or his native Provence. He was interested in German Romanticism and English writers. ![]()
Biography of Ethel Waters (excerpt)
Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American blues and jazz vocalist and actress. She frequently performed jazz, big band, rock and roll and pop music, on the Broadway stage and in concerts, although she began her career in the 1920s singing blues. ![]()
Biography of Ivor Novello (excerpt)
David Ivor Davies (January 15, 1893 – March 6, 1951), better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the early 20th century. Life He was born at Llwyn-yr-Eos (Grove of Nightingales), Cowbridge Road East, Cardiff, Wales, to the well-known singer and teacher, Clara Novello Davies, and David Davies, a tax collector. ![]()
Biography of André Aalberg (excerpt)
André Aalberg, also called Lucien Navarron, born on June 5, 1913 in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on October 15, 1943, was a member of the French Resistance. Awards The Ordre de la Libération, a French Order awarded to heroes of the Liberation of France during World War II.
Biography of Francesco Flora (excerpt)
Francesco Flora, born October 27, 1891 in Colle Sannita, died September 17, 1962 in Bologna, was an Italian literary critic and author.
Biography of Carl Payne Tobey (excerpt)
Carl Payne Tobey, born April 17, 1902 in Lynbrook, New York, died March 19, 1980 in Tucson, Arizona, was an American editor, astrologer and author.
Biography of Marcel Trompier (excerpt)
Marcel Trompier, born August 10, 1907 in Villie-Morgon, was a French businessman. ![]()
Biography of Otto Ohlendorf (excerpt)
Otto Ohlendorf (February 4, 1907 – June 7, 1951) was a German SS-Gruppenführer and head of the interior division of the SD. Nazi official Born in Hoheneggelsen near Hildesheim, the son of a farm owner, he joined the Nazi party in 1925 (member #6631) followed by the SS in 1926. ![]()
Biography of Álvaro Cunhal (excerpt)
Álvaro Barreirinhas Cunhal, who used the name Álvaro Cunhal (Coimbra, Portugal, 10 November 1913 — Lisbon, 13 June 2005), was a Portuguese politician. He served as secretary-general of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) from 1961 to 1992. He was one of the most pro-Soviet of all western Europe communist leaders, often supporting USSR world policies, including the intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968. ![]()
Biography of Jack Paar (excerpt)
Jack Harold Paar (May 1, 1917 – January 27, 2004) was an American radio and television talk show host most noted for his status as host of The Tonight Show. Radio and motion pictures Born in Canton, Ohio, the son of Howard A.
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Biography of Gene Tunney (excerpt)
James Joseph "Gene" Tunney (May 25, 1897 – November 7, 1978) was the heavyweight boxing champion from 1926-1928 who defeated Jack Dempsey twice, first in 1926 and then in 1927. Tunney's successful title defense against Dempsey is one of the most famous bouts in boxing history and is known as The Long Count Fight.
Biography of Béatrix Beck (excerpt)
Béatrix Beck (Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland 14 July 1914 (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died in Saint-Clair-sur-Epte on November 30th, 2008) was a French writer from Belgian origin. She is the daughter of the poet Christian Beck. After several jobs, she became the secretary of André Gide, he encouraged her to write about her experiences: her mother's suicide, the war, her poverty, etc. ![]()
Biography of Jean Francaix (excerpt)
Jean René Désiré Françaix (May 23, 1912, Le Mans (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – September 25, 1997, Paris) was a French neoclassical composer, pianist, and orchestrator, known for his prolific output and vibrant style. Life Françaix's natural gifts were encouraged from an early age by his family: his father, Director of the Conservatoire of Le Mans, was a musicologist, composer, and pianist, and his mother, a teacher of singing. ![]()
Biography of Feike Asma (excerpt)
Feike Asma, born April 21, 1912 in Den Helder, died December 18, 1984 in Amsterdam, was a Dutch musician and organist. ![]()
Biography of Bertus Aafjes (excerpt)
Lambertus Jacobus Johannes Aafjes (May 12, 1914 – April 23, 1993), known as Bertus Aafjes was a Dutch poet whose work is marked by his devout Catholicism. Aafjes was born in Amsterdam. He wrote poems on the resistance to the German occupation during the World War II.
Biography of Mary Reid (excerpt)
Mary Reid aka Mary MacArthur (August 13, 1880-1921) was a Scottish suffragette and trades unionist. She was born in Glasgow and became politicised when she joined the shop assistant's union whilst working in her father draper's shop. In 1903 she became the general secretary of the Women's Trade Union League and in 1906 formed the National Federation of Women Workers and assisted in the creation of the National Anti-Sweating League. ![]()
Biography of Dick Emery (excerpt)
Richard Gilbert "Dick" Emery (19 February 1915 (birth time source: British Entertainers, 3rd edition) – 2 January 1983) was an English comedian and actor , 'a light entertainment icon' who began on radio in the 1950s. After transition to television his popularity grew through the 1960s and 1970s.
Biography of Aimee Semple McPherson (excerpt)
Aimee Semple McPherson (October 9, 1890 – September 27, 1944), also known as "Sister Aimee" or "Sister," was a Canadian-born evangelist and media sensation in the 1920s and 1930s; she was also the founder of the Foursquare Church. Early life McPherson was born Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy in Salford, Ontario, Canada, the daughter of James Morgan Kennedy, a widower and devout Methodist, and Mildred Ona Pearce, 36 years his junior, who had been hired to nurse his first wife during her terminal illness. ![]()
Biography of Sandro Pertini (excerpt)
Alessandro (Sandro) Pertini (September 25, 1896 - February 24, 1990) was an Italian socialist, probably the most popular President of the Italian Republic. Early life Born in Stella (Province of Savona) as the son of a well to do landowner, Alberto, he studied at a Salesian college in Varazze, and completed his schooling at the "Chiabrera" lyceum (high school) in Savona. ![]()
Biography of Jules Dassin (excerpt)
Jules Dassin, born Julius Dassin (December 18, 1911 - March 31, 2008) was an American film director. He was a subject of the Hollywood blacklist, and subsequently moved to France where he revived his career. One of eight children of a Russian-Jewish barber in Middletown, Connecticut, Dassin started as a Yiddish actor with the ARTEF (Yiddish Proletarian Theater) company in New York, but became better known for his noir films Brute Force, The Naked City, and Thieves' Highway in the 1940s. ![]()
Biography of Syngman Rhee (excerpt)
Syngman Rhee or Yi Seungman (March 26, 1875 – July 19, 1965; Korean pronunciation: ) was the first president of South Korea. His presidency, from August 1948 to April 1960, remains controversial, affected by Cold War tensions on the Korean peninsula and elsewhere. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Marie Charles Abrial (excerpt)
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial (17 December 1879, Réalmont (birth time source: Didier Geslain)- 19 December 1962, Dourgne) was a French Admiral and Minister of Marine of France. He fought in both World Wars, and was known mostly for his activity at Dunkirk in 1940. ![]()
Biography of Jacques Bainville (excerpt)
Jacques Bainville (February 9, 1879 in Vincennes-February 9, 1936 in Paris) was a French historian and journalist. A staunch monarchist, he was a leading figure in Action Française. A follower of Charles Maurras, Bainville was a founder of Action Française and soon became an important figure in the Institute d'Action Française, a college of sorts ran by the organisation (it had no permanent buildings but ran lectures and study groups where possible). |
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